Twelve suspects are standing trial, including former close aides, accused of devising a pact with Kadhafi to illegally fund Sarkozy’s victorious 2007 presidential election bid. They deny the ...

Former president Nicolas Sarkozy is likely to be stripped of France's top award the Legion d'honneur (Legion of Honour) after ...

The youngest son of former Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi claims he was pressured to retract allegations about his country's funding of Nicolas Sarkozy's 2007 presidential campaign. In an exclusive ...

Nicolas Sarkozy, who ruled France as a tough-talking ... he used illegal campaign financing from Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi to fund his victorious 2007 presidential election campaign ...

The document, handed over by a source with access to Libyan archives after the 2011 fall of Kadhafi, purported to show an offer of $50 million from the dictator to fund Sarkozy's campaign, signed ...

goes on trial Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with the late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi. Legal troubles have shadowed Sarkozy’s career since he ...

Former French president Nicolas Sarkozy went on trial on Monday charged with accepting illegal campaign financing in an alleged pact with late Libyan dictator Moamer Kadhafi.

The latest trial is the result of a decade of investigations into accusations that Sarkozy accepted illegal campaign financing -- reportedly amounting to some 50 million euros -- from Kadhafi to ...